#animation2017

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New animation made for Pointcode, a French driving test service by Pearson VUE. This is the first time I have made an animation in another language! I also designed the characters. There are two films for the service which you can check out below.

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Bouncing Ball Planning

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Check out this new short film by Robthefrog called ‘Eric Offline’! I did all the social media graphics and animation in it!

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A new animation for Pearson VUE, this time a remake of the ‘What to expect in a test centre’ film I did for them back in 2013 with the updated brand style first seen in the Pointcode animation earlier in the year. Here’s the animation in full:

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September 7th, 2017

Today’s class was about the 12 Principles of Animation and we watch one persons (Alan Becker) interpretations and explanations of them. His visual examples were really helpful. The principles were all things that I guess I had just taken for granted, and not really taken notice of. But, having them explained and shown, it all made a lot of sense.

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September 5th

Today’s class was intense. I was really interested in learning about WIsnor Mccay, but the RMS Lusitania animation really got to me. I feel that is was very effective propaganda, I knew it was propaganda and it still made me feel upset and disturbed, which s exactly what was intended. 

Today was also the first time I’d worked with a tablet connected to the computer. I’ve worked with macs the tiniest bit before but there’s definitely still a learning curve, and adding the wacom on top of that was... very entertaining for my tablet mate Nelson. I enjoyed it though, I love playing with new technology because I know otherwise I wouldn’t be able to access it. 

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I’ve done flip books before but this was a bit bigger than I usually work. It’s 100 pages of index cards! This is based off a line in the poem, “"the Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot. Turning toast into tea (parties)

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T.S. Elliot based Flipbook

September 1st, 2017, 9:30-10:09, 12:00-1:03, 1:21-1:37

Yesterday I listened to the T.S. Elliot poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” and through that I visualized several different images. I had narrowed it down to creating a clock with jester-like apparel and face, turning a toast (such as champagne glasses) into tea, or Lazarus- someone rising from the dead.  Ultimately, I decided on the toast to tea because I thought it would be something slightly easier to keep consistent. 

Spoiler: It was not easy to keep consistent. 

I originally started with 3 champagne glasses, a martini, and a beer bottle.

The beer bottle and martini glass changed wildly in shape from the beginning to when they disappeared. I also realized soon on that I was making changes too quickly. The bubbles in the champagne seemed to suggest it was boiling rather than just being a bubble drink, whoops! The beer bottle successfully looked like it was spinning, though it definitely changed shaped through out. Making the drinks disappear went well, but again, it was too fast. So I made more frames similar or identical when I started introducing the tea cups. Amazingly, it took me about 60 sheets of the flipblook before there was one I absolutely hated, so I just flipped that one around and kept going. 

Using the light board was really cool, and definitely would be something I’d use again if I were going for really small and exact changes. 

I disappeared the drinks and replaced them with teas of different varieties, but even with that I realized I had gone too quickly and it had happened to soon- I still had 20 papers left! So I did what an rational person thinking about tea parties would do- I added cake. 

Overall, I think this is a successful flipbook, but I am aware of how I would could improve upon the process in the future.